Limon was entirely hand drawn and carefully digitised to get accurate curves but keeping the handmade look. The script fonts are smart scripts, plenty of alternates designed to preserve the calligraphic rhythm. Limon is a beautiful option for menus, magazine covers, wedding invitations, cards and all kind of stationery, packaging and labels. Default positional forms appear while you are writing when Standard Ligatures and Contextual Alternates features are on. Just keep them activated and let Limon Script do the rest. It warrants that all the connections will look good. Also, you can activate stylistic alternates, swash, titling and stylistic sets to have options for capitals, initials and terminals. Each Script Font reaches a total of more than 2900 glyphs (languages for every alternate included). Use professional software that widely support Open Type features. Otherwise, you may not have access to some glyphs. For further information about features and alternates, see the User Guide. Limon has extensive Western, Central and Eastern European language support. Limon Script matches very well with Dress and Chonky When life gives you Limon, make a beautiful design!

The simplified letterforms of Sinova™ make it an ideal choice for those settings where you really don't want the type to shout too loudly or draw unnecessary attention to itself. Christian Mengelt has drawn five weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold, all with complimentary obliques. Sinova is an OpenType family that is unfussy, functional, and legible, with extensive language support (some 48 languages). Thanks to its clear and straightforward design and dynamic rhythm, one of the main characteristics of Sinova is its excellent legibility, irrespective of whether it is used in longer passages as a stylish book script or for text in the digitalised office environment. But Sinova also happily adapts itself to being used as a titling font in combination with Renaissance Antique serif typefaces. For this reason, another potential application for the font family is as a graceful and elegant titling and text script for job printing and in publicity texts. The two complementary stroke widths, light and bold, are perfect for commercial applications.

In Axios Pro the rational language of the early XX century geometric sanserifs is complemented with an structure deeply attached to the renaissance typefaces; the uppercase proportions proceed form the roman canon while its lowercase was constructed following the humanist ductus. This blend produce a typeface of modern, clean and contemporary appearance that has implicit on its core a classic vibe, nourishing the text with a timeless elegance.In use, the form and function balance of its design allow it freely travel through a diverse range of fields and possibilities like short text settings, brands, headlines or signage systems with grace and naturality. Axios Pro is available in variable font format and in 20 different individual styles (10 weights), with a set of more than 1000 glyphs per style, supports over 200 latin languages and including an extensive repertoire of opentype features like small caps, ligatures, stylistic alternates, proportional and tabular figures, swashes, borders and many other resources to please your typographic urges. Designed by Rodrigo López Fuentes & Sergio Leiva Whittle

Mutalis Fashion is the epitome of contemporary elegance. This font is the perfect blend of modernity and tradition, featuring a sleek design with delicate serifs that add a touch of sophistication. This font is clean and versatile, making it the ideal choice for fashion-forward projects. With its innovative and inventive style, Mutalis Fashion is perfect for everything from high-end fashion campaigns to stylish websites and advertisements. Whether you're looking to add a touch of glamour to your designs or simply want to create a clean and sophisticated look, Mutalis Fashion is the perfect font for the job. The Mutalis Fashion family consists of Regular and Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Geometron has its origin in a custom typeface that I was commissioned to design for an architectural project. The concept was a "back to basics", minimalist typeface constructed mainly with straight lines and circles or circular arcs, but without departing from the classical style of Roman & Greek lettering. Notable requirements were: an extensive character set needed for multilanguage documentation, as well as a full collection of symbols and alternate glyph forms (e.g. superiors & inferiors) for scientific use. Special care was taken to obviate the almost identical similarities that were prone to appear between letters like uppercase "i" and lowercase "L" or between Latin and Greek letters such as "a" and "alpha". This was also a prerequisite for scientific notation where ambiguity is not acceptable. All in all, the font would have to blend a modern design with a wealth of functional features. Consequently, all of these were made possible by choosing the OpenTypeÆ format for development, resulting in a comprehensive and feature-rich font family specifically targeted for use in high-end design/typesetting applications.

Bronto is a typeface that mutated many times: it went from being morphologically conventional, to have soft features, to finally have some inverted contrasts that made it more dynamical; but all this without losing sight of the meaning of a typefamily, and the aim pursued by this work: Bronto doesn’t behave as a piece of art, but as a tool. In some weights, this typeface possesses fluffy characteristics and is boldly bighead, while in other versions is slightly contrasted and controlled; this in order to maintain the essential features of the typefamily along the versatility and usability of the 20 variations that composed it. Bronto it’s inspired in neo humanists typographies of the 20th century, and in Chilean lettering. This kind of work was made by the spontaneity of the paintbrush, which gave an inverted contrast to some characters. This typeface has plenty of OpenType features, specially an extensive set of ligatures in all weights. Bronto is well suited for motion graphics, letterings, web, advertisings, magazines and books.

XKANZ SQ is a blockier, more rigid variant of a previous font: XKANZ. It's a futuristic, robotic, variable display font geared towards cyberpunk poster text, cover text, and futuristic UI. It can easily shine as both as header and body. Wide glyphs, high weight and corner contrast, and "connectors" that bridge the gap between the stems, it's this mix of elements that give XKANZ its unique look. The family package (same price as any individual style) includes two static styles, regular and oblique, and a variable font file with a interpolatable 0-12 degree slant axis. Each style includes extensive multilingual support covering most latin characters. 4 stylistic sets that include alternates for the D, I, R, and E glyphs, along with symbol/punctuation alternates such as the parenthesis, brackets, and more. Possible updates include condensed versions. The updates will be free and available to everyone who has already purchases XKANZ SQ. All questions, requests, or inquiries can be sent to abe.xuveki@gmail.com or DM'd to Xuveki on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/xuveki)

Introducing Buddy Smile, a unique handwritten font that adds a splash of color, cheerfulness, and playfulness to your designs. With its charming and lively style, this font is perfect for enhancing your brand identity, book covers, children's events, quotes, and more. Buddy Smile brings a touch of personality to your projects with its combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. The fluid and organic strokes create a friendly and approachable feel, making your text feel warm and inviting. Whether you're designing a logo or crafting a heartfelt message, this font will leave a lasting impression. With its extensive language support, Buddy Smile ensures that your message can reach a diverse audience. Express yourself in different languages and connect with people from around the world. The font also includes numbers and punctuation marks, allowing you to maintain consistency throughout your designs. Experience the convenience of PUA (Private Use Area) Encoding, which provides access to special characters and glyphs. Customize your typography and add extra flair to your compositions, making them truly one-of-a-kind.

Nu Sans is a modern and stylish sans-serif font product that was created in 2020. It is a versatile typeface that comes with three different axis options: weight, width, and slant, allowing users to create a wide variety of unique and dynamic typography designs. With a total of 90 complete static fonts, Nu Sans offers an extensive range of options for designers looking for a clean and contemporary font choice. The font family features a bold, geometric design with sharp angles and clean lines, giving it a distinct and modern. Nu Sans is perfect for use in a range of design applications, including advertising, branding, editorial design, and web design. Its dynamic and versatile nature makes it a great choice for any project that requires a strong and bold visual impact. a high-quality font product that offers designers a wide range of options and possibilities. Its modern and stylish design, combined with its triple axis options, makes it a great choice for anyone looking for a versatile and unique sans-serif font.

Jamie Handwriting is a charming hand-script font. Its contextual and stylistic alternates makes for a typography indistinguishable from a true handwritten text. Jamie Handwriting's cute and quirky lettering fits any project or contexts that requite that extra bit of genuineness and life. It is wild and funny to look at, and its quick movements emits a happy optimism. The family consists of ten high-quality styles: The weights Thin, Light, Medium, Bold, Black as well as each style as Regular and Alternate. The different thicknesses ensures it will work in any size, and the Alt style prevents any repeating characters. Jamie Handwriting is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Rabento is an original serif family, with articulate and big letterforms. The typeface was drawn and created by Mans Greback between the years 2018-2021, and is designed to assure a unique and confident character to any headline, logotype or title. A display typeface made for large text displays, it is still clear and legible. With great contrast, this lettering has precise hairline thin horizontal parts, a bold and expressive outline and fat slab serifs. It has traditional traits, but a new and modern design, which together makes for an impactful and notable type setting. Rabento is provided in six high-quality styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black & Black Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Magnirum Serif is a serif typeface with a medieval flair. Drawing inspiration from historic Roman typography and medieval design, Magnirum Serif is a timeless creation that exudes beauty and elegance. While its serifs and ornaments echo the intricacies of ancient manuscripts, the typeface is designed for modern legibility and regular usage. It combines the best of both worlds, offering a unique blend of historic charm and contemporary readability. Add symbol # after any letter to place a crown on top of it. Example: Cro#wn Magnirum Serif is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, and includes all the characters and symbols you'll ever need. Behind this captivating creation is Mans Greback. Renowned for his skill in marrying historical elements with modern utility, Greback has crafted Magnirum Serif to be a versatile yet nostalgic typeface. His portfolio showcases his ability to bring stories and emotions into the realm of type design.

The initial inspiration for the typeface came from examining precisely machined labels on tools of various kinds, from cameras to cars, which need to be perfectly legible at all sizes. Such processes create a distinctly streamlined, clean look that feels both robust and stylish - universal and unique. Technical Rounded VP includes ten diverse styles, offering great versatility. All styles in this family include an extensive Latin character set, the Greek alphabet, multiple sets of numerals, a large set of punctuation marks, and other symbols. With 1120 glyphs in each style, it guarantees full support for all Latin languages. To make the family even more powerful, twenty OpenType features are included, such as multiple vertical positions, diagonal fractional forms, optional slashed zeros, separate old-style and lining figures, small capitals, and contextual alternates. If you are looking for similar typefaces, note that Technical Rounded VP is the soft counterpart of Technical Standard VP. A stenciled version is also available. They can be used either on their own or together seamlessly.

Introducing the stunning and sophisticated Grinda font, an elegant serif typeface inspired by luxury classic covers and combined with modern typeface style. With 534 glyphs and 359 alternate characters, Grinda provides an extensive range of display combinations for lettering, giving you endless design possibilities. Grinda comes with a variety of OpenType features including alternates and end swashes, making it easier to create beautiful and unique lettering. This font also supports multiple languages, making it versatile and accessible for designers around the world. Perfect for logotypes, headings, covers, posters, logos, quotes, product packaging, headers, merchandise, social media, greeting cards, and much more, Grinda will elevate your designs to the next level of elegance and sophistication. To access the alternate glyphs, you'll need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, and Corel Draw. In the zip package, you'll find the Grinda font files in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats, and it comes with uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as numbers, punctuation, and symbols.

Embrace the captivating elegance of LaRuja, a modern serif font that seamlessly blends feminine grace with unwavering strength. Its distinctively high contrast between horizontal and vertical lines creates a dynamic interplay of elegance and structure, making it a versatile choice for a wide range of applications. LaRuja's gracefully tapered terminals and subtly curved arches exude a sense of refined femininity, while its sturdy serifs and well-defined letterforms project an unyielding strength. This unique balance of characteristics makes LaRuja the ideal choice for projects that demand both beauty and substance. LaRuja's extensive language support, encompassing over 90 languages, makes it a global font that can be effortlessly adapted to diverse cultural contexts. From fashion magazines and branding materials to websites and marketing campaigns, LaRuja seamlessly conveys your message across borders. LaRuja's comprehensive weight system, ranging from Thin to Black, enables you to tailor the font's appearance to suit the specific needs of your project. The lighter weights, such as Thin and Light, exude elegance and sophistication, while the heavier weights, such as Semibold and Black, project authority and impact. Happy creating everyone!

Introducing 'Stanford Breath' a vintage decorative font inspired by the western typography and victorian style. this font has strong look with the rounded serif, all-caps, and decorative uppercase. Collected from many references such as vintage signage, logo, badges, and old-fashioned graphics. Stanford Breath is complete with extra ornaments that look great to combine. This font is perfect for many display purposes. You can use this font for posters, labels, logos, signboards, t-shirts, book covers, decorations, merchandise, and more! Multilingual support with a ton of alternate characters! Fonts Featured : Uppercase Smallcaps Numbers & punctuations Stylistic Set 01-14 Custom ligatures Accented characters: ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞŒŠŽßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿœšž Stanford Breath font is PUA Encoded which means you don't need any special software to access the OpenType features.

Glitther Syavina is a Fancy Modern vintage serif typeface with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs, and multilingual support. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Perfect for editorial projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Features: Lowercase and Uppercase Stylistic Alternates & Ligatures Numerals & Punctuation Open glyphs panel: In Adobe Photoshop go to Window - glyphs In Adobe Illustrator go to Type - glyphs Follow my shop for upcoming updates including additional glyphs and language support. And Please message me if you want your language included or If there are any features or glyph requests, feel free to send me a message, I would like to update it.

Introducing Maguire Elegant Typeface Maguire is a Minimalist Modern Elegant font with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs and multilingual support. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Maguire is perfect for branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Features: 3 Weights font Uppercase Lowercase Stylistic Alternates & Ligatures Numerals & Punctuation Multiple Languages Supported HOW TO ACCESS ALTERNATE CHARACTERS Open glyphs panel: In Adobe Photoshop go to Window - glyphs In Adobe Illustrator go to Type - glyphs Thanks for checking out our font! I really hope you enjoy using it! If you have any questions I'd be more than happy to answer them, just send me a message!

Introducing Stoic, a bold, full-featured script font with tons of OpenType features. With its smooth connections and considerable charm, Stoic is perfect for logos, wedding invitations, stationery design, branding projects, photo overlays, editorial features, and more. Stoic comes with more than 550 glyphs! Specific OpenType features include contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, initial and final forms, multiple alternate glyphs for many letters (accessed through the glyphs panel), multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols), three ampersands, 101 standard and discretionary ligatures, and standard numbers. The OpenType features can be very easily accessed by using OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. (To access these awesome features in Microsoft Word, you'll need to get comfortable with the advanced tab of Word's font menu.)

Introducing Qarlient - A Modern Serif Font Qarlient is a powerful modern serif font with freshness, elegance and unique appearance. This font concept includes a wide range of inspirations, from ancient to classical to modern, making it a perfect font for low-key, modern and refined appearance. Ton of beauty and luxury alternates make this serif font very versatile. This gives any branding or logo design looks unique. Qarlient font is perfect for Magazine, Social Media, Poster, Business Card, and Many more that needs Unique touches. FEATURES - Stylistic Alternates - PUA Encode - Uppercase and Lowercase letters - Numbering and Punctuations - Multilingual Support - Works on PC or Mac - Simple Installation - Support Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works on Microsoft Word Hope you Like it. Thanks.

Handmade is based on my own handmade lettering, which is inspired by vernacular and ornamental type. It has the naive personality from street hand-painted signs from Brazil and that charm and elegance of vintage ornamental fonts. Each letter has its own style and the font comes with 2 uppercase variations, meaning you can mix them in order to write words without repeating the same character. The font has a handmade warmth feel to it, which is ideal for projects that demand the craftsmanship look or just that modern, grunge, fun type that goes well with tons of different styles. If that was not all, Handmade also comes with an EPS vector set with 16 vector and hand-drawn ornaments! Enjoy!

Introducing Auteur, a graceful, full-featured script font with tons of alternate characters and OpenType features. Hand-lettered with a heavy right slant and realistic disconnected letters (connected versions also included), Auteur’s casual elegance is particularly well-suited to invitations, branding, and editorial design. Auteur comes with more than 1200 glyphs! Specific OpenType features include contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, optional initial and final forms, multiple alternate glyphs for many letters (accessed through the glyphs panel), multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols), ligatures, multiple numeral forms (standard, tabular, proportional oldstyle), and ten ampersand styles. Perhaps the most fun thing about Auteur is that it includes multiple versions of all ascending and descending letters, making it lots of fun to play with layouts and compositions.

Mundo Sans, by Carl Crossgrove for the Monotype Studio, is distinctive, approachable – and ready to tackle jobs both big and small. Its open counters and large x-height, which give the design a straight-forward no-nonsense mien, are softened by inviting calligraphic undertones. With 10 weights and a complementary suite of cursive italics, there is little outside the range of the Mundo Sans family. The light weights are elegant in packaging and brochure design, the medium are easy readers in digital blogs and print periodicals and the bold command attention in banners and headlines. Mundo Sans is at home in a wide range of sizes, and comfortable in everything from wayfinding to mobile apps. Mundo Sans takes on complicated branding projects with efficient grace. The family enables companies and products to express their brand seamlessly in websites, advertising, corporate messaging, packaging – virtually everywhere visible engagement is possible. A large international character set, that includes support for most Central European and many Eastern European languages, ensures ease of localization. Mundo Sans was originally released with seven weights. The family was updated with three new roman weights and their italics in 2019 that extend and diversify its range of use: a fine hairline weight, a book weight, slightly lighter than regular, and a demi that is subtly lighter than the medium. The design is also is a good mixer. It easily pairs with everything from refined Didones to stalwart slab serif designs. And if you need a more harmonious palette, look no further than Mundo Sans’ relative, Mundo Serif. The two designs harmonize with each other perfectly in weight, typographic color and proportion. Mundo Sans’ italics are true cursive designs, with fluid strokes and obvious calligraphic overtones. The flick of the down-stroke in the ‘a,’ the descending stroke of the ‘f’ and baseline curve of the ‘z’ add grace to the design and distinguish it from more mechanistic styles. Mundo Sans is a design with deep roots. It was originally drawn to pair with classic Renaissance book typefaces like Bembo® and ITC Galliard®. With a hint of diagonal stroke contrast and gentle flaring of strokes, Mundo Sans complements these designs with warmth and grace. Crossgrove says that Mundo isn’t meant to be showy or distinctive. It is intended to follow the tradition of sans serif designs that have a wide range of uses, enabling comfortable reading and clear expression. Crossgrove has designed a variety of typefaces ranging from the futuristic and organic Biome™ to the text designs of Monotype’s elegant Walbaum™ revival. His work for Monotype also often takes Crossgrove into the realm of custom fronts for branding and non-Latin scripts.

Eclectic FS Siena is a typeface with history, and not just in the sense of having its origins in classical Roman lettering. Fontsmith founder Jason Smith first committed it to tracing paper while still at college, instinctively redrawing letterforms based on Hermann Zapf’s Optima according to ‘what felt right’. When Krista Radoeva took up the challenge to edit and extend the typeface, she and Jason were determined to preserve its subtly nonconformist and eclectic spirit. Like a great dish, there are individual components throughout the character set that all add flavour, and need to be balanced in order to work together. The smooth connection of the ‘h’ ‘m’ ‘n’ and ‘r’ contrasts with the corners of the ‘b’ and ‘p’. The instantly recognisable double-storey ‘a’ – the starting point of the design – contrasts with the single-storey ‘g’ and the more cursive ‘y’. And only certain characters – ‘k’, ‘w’, ‘v’ and ‘x’ in the lowercase and ‘K’, ‘V’, ‘W’, ‘X’ and ‘Y’ in the caps – have curved strokes. Transitional FS Siena is a contrasted sans-serif typeface, blending classical elegance and modern simplicity. Its construction and proportions are descended from classical broad-nib calligraphy and humanist typefaces, with a high contrast between the thick and thin strokes. The angle of the contrast, though, is vertical, more in the character of pointed-nib calligraphy and modernist typefaces. This vertical stress helps to give FS Siena a strong, cultured presence on the page. Idiosyncratic italics The italics for FS Siena were developed by Krista to complement the roman upper and lower-case alphabets first drawn by Jason. Many of the letterforms are built differently to their roman counterparts: there’s a single-tier ‘a’, a looped ‘k’ and connections more towards the middle of stems, such as in the ‘m’, ‘n’ and ‘u’. These distinctions, along with generally much narrower forms than the roman, give the italics extra emphasis within body copy, where the two are side-by-side. In editorial, especially, the combination can be powerful. To cap it all… In his original draft of the typeface, Jason found inspiration in Roman square capitals of the kind most famously found on Trajan’s Column in Rome. In keeping with those ancient inscriptions, he intended the capitals of FS Siena to also work in all-upper-case text, in logotypes for luxury consumer brands and property developments, for example. A little added space between the upper-case letters lets the capitals maintain their poise in a caps-only setting, while still allowing them to work alongside the lower-case letterforms. The caps-only setting also triggers a feature called case punctuation, which adapts hyphens, brackets and other punctuation to complement the all-caps text.

Meet Ollie, a casual signage script whose friendly, bouncy exterior belies a heart of sophisticated OpenType programming. This font is designed to make the most of OpenType savvy applications, and as such is recommended for professional design use. Or to put it another way: Make sure that contextual alternates and ligatures are always turned on! Ollie includes about 900 glyphs, many of which are automagical substitutions to keep the text flowing smoothly, and to pseudo-randomly pick different glyphs to avoid repetition. With contextual alternates turned on (as they should be by default), most lowercase letters will alternate between at least two different forms. The powerful OpenType programming makes the font itself ‘look back’ (up to eight characters) on previously used letters; typing “banana” will give you three different a’s and two different n’s (the last a is a special ‘end form’ character). The calt feature controls many other ‘special effects’ which all add together to give a smooth-flowing, hand-lettered look. These effects include start and end forms (and indeed, ‘loner’ forms) of many letters, which are automatically substituted in at beginnings or ends of words, or when the previous or next letter doesn't connect. Another special feature tests to see if there is room for the crossbar of t (or tt ligature) to extend further over the previous or next letter, or both, as is often the case. The last main effect of the calt feature is to substitute certain letters typed before any ‘e’ character, to make for a more natural connection (see the pe combination in ‘Eclectotype’ in the first poster). Ligatures should be on by default, for a much nicer looking tt combination, and a few others besides. The swash feature should be used sparingly (one glyph at a time, really) to apply a more extravagant look to g,j and y in the lower case, and quite a few of the upper case too. Oldstyle figures are included, as well as the lining defaults. Now to delve into the stylistic alternates... These are all included in the salt feature, or for uses of applications that support them, separated into stylistic sets thus: ss01 - (with swash feature on) L and G swashes get even swashier. ss02 - standard s changes to a connected script s form. ss03 - r takes on a script form. ss04 - z also gets a scriptier look. [the previous three sets also change any versions of s, r or z with diacritics] ss05 - a useful underline function. When enabled, typing two or more underscores will extend a cool underline under the previous letters. More underscores = longer underline. ss06 - the Polish script lslash changes to its more standard form. ss07 - E, S and B change to a more top-heavy alternate form. ss08 - An alternate form for A characters. ss09 - Alterative rounder forms of M and N. ss10 - An alternate ampersand. That about wraps up the features. Now all that’s left is for you to license the font and get experimenting!

Type designers are crazy people. Not crazy in the sense that they think we are Napoleon, but in the sense that the sky can be falling, wars tearing the world apart, disasters splitting the very ground we walk on, plagues circling continents to pick victims randomly, yet we will still perform our ever optimistic task of making some little spot of the world more appealing to the human eye. We ought to be proud of ourselves, I believe. Optimism is hard to come by these days. Regardless of our own personal reasons for doing what we do, the very thing we do is in itself an act of optimism and belief in the inherent beauty that exists within humanity. As recently as ten years ago, I wouldn't have been able to choose the amazing obscure profession I now have, wouldn't have been able to be humbled by the history that falls into my hands and slides in front of my eyes every day, wouldn't have been able to live and work across previously impenetrable cultural lines as I do now, and wouldn't have been able to raise my glass of Malbeck wine to toast every type designer who was before me, is with me, and will be after me. As recently as ten years ago, I wouldn't have been able to mean these words as I wrote them: It’s a small world. Yes, it is a small world, and a wonderfully complex one too. With so much information drowning our senses by the minute, it has become difficult to find clear meaning in almost anything. Something throughout the day is bound to make us feel even smaller in this small world. Most of us find comfort in a routine. Some of us find extended families. But in the end we are all Eleanor Rigbys, lonely on the inside and waiting for a miracle to come. If a miracle can make the world small, another one can perhaps give us meaning. And sometimes a miracle happens for a split second, then gets buried until a crazy type designer finds it. I was on my honeymoon in New York City when I first stumbled upon the letters that eventually started this Affair. A simple, content tourist walking down the streets formerly unknown to me except through pop music and film references. Browsing the shops of the city that made Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and a thousand other artists. Trying to chase away the tourist mentality, wondering what it would be like to actually live in the city of a billion tiny lights. Tourists don't go to libraries in foreign cities. So I walked into one. Two hours later I wasn't in New York anymore. I wasn't anywhere substantial. I was the crazy type designer at the apex of insanity. La La Land, alphabet heaven, curves and twirls and loops and swashes, ribbons and bows and naked letters. I'm probably not the very first person on this planet to be seduced into starting an Affair while on his honeymoon, but it is something to tease my better half about once in a while. To this day I can't decide if I actually found the worn book, or if the book itself called for me. Its spine was nothing special, sitting on a shelf, tightly flanked by similar spines on either side. Yet it was the only one I picked off that shelf. And I looked at only one page in it before walking to the photocopier and cheating it with an Argentine coin, since I didn't have the American quarter it wanted. That was the beginning. I am now writing this after the Affair is over. And it was an Affair to remember, to pull a phrase. Right now, long after I have drawn and digitized and tested this alphabet, and long after I saw what some of this generation’s type designers saw in it, I have the luxury to speculate on what Affair really is, what made me begin and finish it, what cultural expressions it has, and so on. But in all honesty it wasn't like that. Much like in my Ministry Script experience, I was a driven man, a lover walking the ledge, an infatuated student following the instructions of his teacher while seeing her as a perfect angel. I am not exaggerating when I say that the letters themselves told me how to extend them. I was exploited by an alphabet, and it felt great. Unlike my experience with Ministry Script, where the objective was to push the technology to its limits, this Affair felt like the most natural and casual sequence of processions in the world – my hand following the grid, the grid following what my hand had already done – a circle of creation contained in one square computer cell, then doing it all over again. By contrast, it was the lousiest feeling in the world when I finally reached the conclusion that the Affair was done. What would I do now? Would any commitment I make from now on constitute a betrayal of these past precious months? I'm largely over all that now, of course. I like to think I'm a better man now because of the experience. Affair is an enormous, intricately calligraphic OpenType font based on a 9x9 photocopy of a page from a 1950s lettering book. In any calligraphic font, the global parameters for developing the characters are usually quite volatile and hard to pin down, but in this case it was particularly difficult because the photocopy was too gray and the letters were of different sizes, very intertwined and scan-impossible. So finishing the first few characters in order to establish the global rhythm was quite a long process, after which the work became a unique soothing, numbing routine by which I will always remember this Affair. The result of all the work, at least to the eyes of this crazy designer, is 1950s American lettering with a very Argentine wrapper. My Affair is infused with the spirit of filete, dulce de leche, yerba mate, and Carlos Gardel. Upon finishing the font I was fortunate enough that a few of my colleagues, great type designers and probably much saner than I am, agreed to show me how they envision my Affair in action. The beauty they showed me makes me feel small and yearn for the world to be even smaller now – at least small enough so that my international colleagues and I can meet and exchange stories over a good parrilla. These people, whose kindness is very deserving of my gratitude, and whose beautiful art is very deserving of your appreciation, are in no particular order: Corey Holms, Mariano Lopez Hiriart, Xavier Dupré, Alejandro Ros, Rebecca Alaccari, Laura Meseguer, Neil Summerour, Eduardo Manso, and the Doma group. You can see how they envisioned using Affair in the section of this booklet entitled A Foreign Affair. The rest of this booklet contains all the obligatory technical details that should come with a font this massive. I hope this Affair can bring you as much peace and satisfaction as it brought me, and I hope it can help your imagination soar like mine did when I was doing my duty for beauty.

I remember that my auntie once made a dish called ‘Macaroni and Smac’. It consisted of little ‘elbow’ macaroni, Spam (which in Holland was called Smac), cheese and ketchup. I am sure it didn’t contain on of your five a day, but it was delicious. As far as I know, I have eaten it only once, but it did make a lasting impression! Biscuits & Spam is a handmade ‘Western’ style font, which I found in my ‘unfinished fonts’ folder. It comes with multilingual support, a full set of alternates for the lower case letters and a really happy vibe.

Ergo is a relatively new font oriented on the form philosophy of Univers and Frutiger, namely, that a font which the eye should see as correct cannot be constructed. The eye tends to enlarge horizontals and to perceive verticals as weaker, and the stroke differences of Ergo are therefore designed to accommodate this tendency. Ergo makes a dynamic and modern impression and is extremely legible.

Alf R. Becker was a noted sign painter, designer and the creator of hundreds of unique alphabets which were published in the trade magazine Signs of the Times during the 1930s through the 1950s. Thanks to Tod Swormstedt of ST Media [and who is also the curator of the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati], Jeff Levine received some reference material on Becker's work. Becker displayed many of his type styles within decorative panels—a popular trend in the days when signs were hand-lettered. Using the reference material as a guide, Jeff has re-drawn twenty-six sign panels for adaptation to digital print work. While the designs in themselves are not thoroughly unique to Alf Becker, he has left behind some tangible examples of how sign painters embellished their lettering work. With the use of complementary colors and tones, these panels—joined with vintage lettering - classically recreate the warm and attractive advertising of years ago.

Blackletter fonts are timelessly beautiful and still very popular. At some point, it seems that every type designer discovers the beauty of these forms and the great pleasure in creating blackletter characters. Like also Dutch designer Coen Hofmann who, after designing Caxtonian Gothic, has designed yet another Blackletter font: Holland Gothic. Holland Gothic reminds of the 18th century »Duytsch« typefaces of Joan Michael Fleischmann and Christoffel Van Dyck. But Hofmann was mainly inspired by the Dutch calligraphers from the 17th and 18th century. Holland Gothic develops its full charm and beauty at larger sizes because of the hairlines in the upper case characters. To enable users composing texts in the style of our ancestors, Coen Hofmann added a series of pre-composed ligatures, also in combination with the long s, plus an alternate form for the lower case r which was used in combination with letters b, d, g, o, p, v, and w.

A long lost Art Nouveau wood type from the Hamilton Museum Collection evokes the excesses of Victorian design and the equally quirky 1960s Psychedelic era revival of the Victorian type styles. Free flowing organic designs that flourished with Art Nouveau in the late 1800s were directly referenced and further distorted with with phototype in the late 1960s. This design, known as Arabesque, was produced by the Morgans & Wilcox Co. and the Wm. Page Co. as almost identical designs. Both manufacturers were acquired by Hamilton and offered briefly by Hamilton as design #618. This curious wood type defies most of the basic tenets of type design and what comes to mind when one thinks "wood type". Many characters have a lively eccentricity that were all left true to the original design. Additional characters were designed to fill out the standard range of characters found in digital fonts. This font includes over 280 characters for full unicode support of Western and Central European Latin characters.

Blossomy is a pictographic font consisting of 72 plant and flower illustrations, designed by kapitza. The font explores the beauty of shapes and structures in nature. The illustrations are based on photographs which have been traced by hand and are the result of a long term interest in the organic and erratic lines of naturally growing plants. The idea for Blossomy originated several years ago via a series of paintings exploring forms and structures in nature. The outlines for those paintings were traced in Illustrator and then transferred onto canvas. The outcome was so simple and beautiful that the designers decided to keep working on new illustrations and combine them in a font. Blossomy can be used as individual illustrations or to create patterns. The font covers a wide variety of flora and fauna, including pot flowers, a bonsai trees, leaves, blooms and grasses, and gives creatives a wide variety of shapes to get inspired by and use in their work.

Say it softer with Solitas Serif. Perfect for the designer needing a serif without the stiffness, Solitas Serif will turn your reader’s eye with its slight serifs and rounded corners. This softer version of the curves found in Solitas and Solitas Slab gives your work a subtle yet noticeable charm. Solitas Serif’s 42 rich fonts live comfortably in print and on packaging as well as online. With its soft, pleasant appeal, your reader can move over the typeface with ease. Intermediate weights are available for long amounts of text, and the bold version makes a strong but gentle stance in headlines and subheadings. Altogether, Solitas Serif remains an unimposing and graceful font, despite its large selection of seven weights, three widths, and italic sets. Solitas Serif’s OpenType options include capitals, ligatures, ordinal numbers, fractions, denominators, superscripts and subscripts. Serif also supports Western European, Central European and Eastern European languages. For a sweet approach, charm your reader with simple and soft. Charm them with the subtle Solitas Serif.

Inspired by a trip to Costa Rica and named after its famous beach town, Nosara is a layered vector font that's perfect for projects that require a realistic, hand-painted desert-island look. It comes in three styles: Regular, Outline, and Fill. The styles can be layered to create authentic-looking hand-painted letters and icons—in vector! You can create outlines from this font in order to customize to your heart's desire. Millions of bespoke combinations are possible. This typeface was made by hand, meaning each letter was painted with real paint and digitized, not created on an iPad, which is why this font looks great and has a warm natural quality even at large sizes. Nosara is perfect for packaging, parties, signage, and even looks great in long-form text! Nosara Xtra is a set of pictograms, also in 3 styles that can be layered for the same effect, evoking the imagery and happy vibes of a sunny tropical vacation.